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- November 4, 2009
- Article
Give Credit to Great Jobs--But Only Where It's Due
By: Robert C. Pozen
Keywords:
Jobs and Positions
Pozen, Robert C. "Give Credit to Great Jobs--But Only Where It's Due." Financial Times (November 4, 2009).
- November 2009
- Article
Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?
By: Robert C. Pozen
When the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below...
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Keywords:
Cost Accounting;
Fair Value Accounting;
Financial Crisis;
Assets;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Crisis Management;
Standards;
Banking Industry
Pozen, Robert C. "Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?" Harvard Business Review 87, no. 11 (November 2009).
- July 2008 (Revised August 2008)
- Supplement
Fidelity Investments' Charitable Gift Fund (B)
By: Robert C. Pozen
The (B) case informs students of Fidelity's decision about pursuing a business process patent for its charitable gift fund and describes subsequent litigation and lawsuits filed by other companies over business process patent issues.
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Pozen, Robert C. "Fidelity Investments' Charitable Gift Fund (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 309-003, July 2008. (Revised August 2008.)
- July 2008 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
Fidelity Investments' Charitable Gift Fund (A)
By: Robert C. Pozen
Deborah Pege, an attorney at Fidelity Investments, needs to decide whether Fidelity should attempt to patent business processes involved with its new charitable gift fund. The case explores the conditions that must be satisfied in order to receive a patent and raises...
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Pozen, Robert C. "Fidelity Investments' Charitable Gift Fund (A)." Harvard Business School Case 309-002, July 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
- April 2008 (Revised January 2012)
- Teaching Note
Norway Sells Wal-Mart (TN)
By: Robert C. Pozen
Teaching Note for [308019].
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- 2009
- Contribution
Contribution
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "Contribution." Contribution to Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller, William F. Sharpe, Robert C. Merton, and Myron S. Scholes. Vol. 2, edited by Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn. Pioneering Papers of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009. (Introduction to Part IV.)
- August 6, 2007
- Article
Insuring China's Future
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "Insuring China's Future." Wall Street Journal (August 6, 2007).
- October 8, 2008
- Article
How to Unfreeze Bank Lending
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "How to Unfreeze Bank Lending." Wall Street Journal (October 8, 2008).
- March 3, 2007
- Article
Reporting for Duty
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "Reporting for Duty." New York Times (March 3, 2007).
- 2008
- Chapter
A New Generation of Pension Fund Management
By: Robert C. Merton
In talking about pension plans at this point in American economic and corporate history, we need to discuss three linked issues: the defined-benefit (DB) corporate plans that worked for our parents; the defined-contribution (DC) plans we're getting today because...
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- December 2007
- Article
Applying Modern Risk Management to Equity and Credit Analysis
By: Robert C. Merton
Traditional conventions of accounting and actuarial science distort the valuation of capital risk in corporations with pension plans because under these conventions, pension assets and liabilities are not included in balance sheet calculations. The modern risk...
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Keywords:
Risk Management;
Valuation;
Financial Reporting;
Decision Making;
Credit;
Financial Statements;
Capital;
Equity;
Compensation and Benefits
Merton, Robert C. "Applying Modern Risk Management to Equity and Credit Analysis." CFA Institute Conference Proceedings Quarterly 24 (December 2007): 14–22.
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
different in scope and age and mission: the Clark Foundation and Pfizer pharmaceuticals. These two organizations wanted to get rid of trachoma by the year 2020. "They both had very specific and clear core capabilities. Pfizer had...
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by Martha Lagace
- August 2019
- Case
Immigration Policy in Germany (B)
By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Robert Scherf
Weinzierl, Matthew C., and Robert Scherf. "Immigration Policy in Germany (B)." Harvard Business School Case 720-010, August 2019.
- August 19, 2012
- Article
A Realistic Discount Rate for Pensions
By: Robert C. Pozen and Theresa Hamacher
- November – December 2011
- Article
Most Likely to Succeed: Leadership in the Industry
By: Robert C. Pozen and Theresa Hamacher
What is the critical factor for success in the U.S. mutual fund industry? Is it top-ranked investment performance, innovative products, or pervasive distribution? In our view, it is none of these factors, despite their obvious importance. Instead, the best predictors...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Success;
Investment Funds;
Rank and Position;
Performance;
Investment;
Innovation and Invention;
Product;
Distribution;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Asset Management;
Governance Controls;
United States
Pozen, Robert C., and Theresa Hamacher. "Most Likely to Succeed: Leadership in the Industry." Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 6 (November–December 2011).
- July 6, 2011
- Article
Fine Time to Wade Into Money Market Funds
By: Robert C. Pozen and Theresa Hamacher
Pozen, Robert C., and Theresa Hamacher. "Fine Time to Wade Into Money Market Funds." Washington Post (July 6, 2011).
- April 2012
- Case
Credit Rating Agency Reform in the US and EU
By: Robert C. Pozen and Brian Conroy
The purpose of this note is to explore reform options for the credit rating industry. The note examines the ways in which credit rating agencies contributed to the recent financial crisis, particularly through ratings of securitized products and sovereign debt. It...
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Keywords:
Debt Securities;
Financial Condition;
Standards;
Financial Crisis;
Corporate Finance;
Financial Services Industry;
United States;
European Union
Pozen, Robert C., and Brian Conroy. "Credit Rating Agency Reform in the US and EU." Harvard Business School Case 312-127, April 2012.
- June 2011
- Teaching Note
The Expansion of Ping An (TN)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Nina Yang
Teaching Note for 311133.
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Keywords:
China
- April 2011 (Revised June 2012)
- Background Note
Note on U.S. Pension Accounting
By: Robert C. Pozen and Brij Khurana
The purpose of this note is to describe the manner in which publicly traded corporations and local governments in the United States account for their pension plans.
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Pozen, Robert C., and Brij Khurana. "Note on U.S. Pension Accounting." Harvard Business School Background Note 311-115, April 2011. (Revised June 2012.)